“I don’t think this is enough to restore Canadians’ confidence. There’s gold missing at the Mint and it’s because they couldn’t count it.”

A report released yesterday found accounting errors and miscalculations during refining were responsible for the vanishing gold. Now, after a 14-month search, the Crown corporation can say it knows where its gold has gone…

The Mint admitted it underestimated the gold content in the by-product left after its refining process. As a result, millions of dollars worth of gold were miscounted or sold off to U.S. processors as slag at a fraction of its value.

At least the government will withhold bonuses from the top five honchos.

American-style, we would have fired ’em. Given each a golden parachute and found jobs for them in Wall Street investment firms.